Number of words – 344 Imagine how surprised the first Neolithic farmer must have been when he hit a pebble with his stone hammer and instead of shattering, the pebble just bent. A nugget of native copper! Copper does sometimes occur pure, in small nuggets. By banging away at it our Neolithic hero could form … Read more
Number of words – 297 In more temperate regions in Africa, there are hunter-gatherer tribes today who manage well enough by spending only a couple of days a week in food gathering task. They may not have their own kinds of leisure time activities. So, if the Neolithic life style was that pleasant, why did … Read more
Number of words – 244 Occasionally, when an adult sheep has been killed by humans for food, a lamb remains that’s taken back to the camp for a pet. The lamb is fed and becomes somewhat tame. Others, over the generations receive the same treatment, and with the right genetic variations may lose some of … Read more
Number of words – 97 Fish get their oxygen from water. Most of them have two pairs of nostrils, a forward facing set for letting water in and a pair of exhaust pipes for letting it out again. The question is, if humans evolved from fishes, where did the other pair of nostrils go? The … Read more
Number of words – 542 A complaint was received by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: ‘This is the second time I have written to you, and I don’t blame you for not answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact that we have a tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for … Read more
Number of words – 162 When an idealistic IBM programmer named Elliott heard Tom Watson Jr, the powerful chairman of IBM, testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that America’s war effort in Vietnam was poorly managed, Elliott felt compelled to react. Elliot wrote Watson a letter that said in short, if you think Vietnam … Read more
Number of words – 89 While working as the project manager of an orientation meeting for the business Faculty of University of Victoria, Janet took the initiative to create an extra special closing ceremony. Rather than just the usual congratulations and handshakes, Janet presented each teacher who came forward to the podium with the box … Read more
Number of words – 89 A manager at a hotel initiated a simple two-way activity to encourage communication between management and staff. Every month the manager asks for staff, ‘What one thing can I do better for you this month. After listening and noting the employees’ ideas the manager then tells the staff. ‘Great. And … Read more
Number of words – 205 As part of a transformation exercise, a corporate team at Shell was given a video camera and 90 minutes to make a video. What the team came out was the story of a guy who had to go to the bathroom very badly. The old Shell video opens with the … Read more
Numberof words – 194 Soon after Yumi started at an entry level position at a Hitachi Silicon wafer fabrication plant in Japan, the management was reviewing a proposal to close the plant due to a defect wait some 20% higher than the norm. Riding into work one day on her bike, Yumi noticed that a … Read more
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